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Real Estate, both commercial and residential, is constantly evolving. The National Law Review covers the latest legal analysis in real estate and construction law across a variety of governmental levels—state and federal. Additionally, NLR covers updates related to transportation and other utilities and public works.

Public and private construction projects, financing, mortgages, tax cuts and incentives, foreclosures, and other topics are covered regularly and updated routinely on the site. Other areas covered include litigation, mediation, and arbitration which affects owners/contractors/subcontractors in the field, government agency news, and coverage of news/stories related to lenders, insurers, and sureties in the industry.

Public work issues are also covered frequently by the National Law Review. Infrastructure financing, topics including entitlements, development rights, property rights, the public-private partnership (P3), permitting, local ordinances, variances, and different legislation/restrictions in development. Coverage of development and property owner rights, cases involving homeowners associations, fees, pending litigation, and changes to local/state/federal ordinances and variances, are also available.

Additionally, the National Law Review covers regulations and legislation as it relates to mortgages and other real estate lending requirements; including, the requirements imposed on lenders under RESPA, and other news from the CFPB as it relates to homeownership and mortgage procedures, such as the Know Before You Owe Rule.

Articles related to highway safety, transportation news, and other utilities-topics, are also covered by the National Law Review. Coverage of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and changes to the organization are analyzed by NLR legal experts. The emerging technology of autonomous vehicles, developments in that technology, and the emerging regulation around driverless cars are analyzed, and the impact of this game-changing technology is considered.

In the construction arena, reporting worker injuries on the job site, and coverage of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) laws are extensively reported on by the attorney writers at the National Law Review. 

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Recent Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure & Zoning News

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Sep
17
2012
Expanded California Use Tax Collection Requirement for Retailers Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
May
8
2018
Release of 2017 HMDA Data Covington & Burling LLP
Nov
10
2015
Tenancy by Entirety Not Defense to Mortgage Foreclosure Case When Both Spouses Signed Letter of Direction to Trustee of Land Trust Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered
Aug
25
2021
GRATS — Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts Wiggin and Dana LLP
Jun
30
2014
The Court of Appeals’ Dryden/Cooperstown Decision – Court Upholds The Sanctity of Local Zoning, But Does It Doom Fracking In New York? Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Sep
30
2012
Be Careful to Avoid Tax Penalties for Converting Ag Land into Other Use Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
May
18
2018
Use of Transfer on Death (TOD) Deeds Broadened Under New Statute Davis|Kuelthau, s.c.
Dec
3
2015
New Jersey Court May Force Sale of House Post-Divorce Stark & Stark
Sep
7
2021
Public Improvement Districts Texas Legislative Update Winstead
Jul
14
2014
Big Banks Argue that Shorter Limitations Period Should Apply to MBS (Mortgage Backed Securities) Claims Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
15
2023
OFAC Expands Russian Sanctions Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
18
2015
California Supreme Court Rejects Mandatory "Reverse CEQA" Analysis Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Sep
21
2021
Mass. High Court: Three-Year Clock for Wetlands Protection Act Enforcement Actions Re-Starts With Every Sale of Property Pierce Atwood LLP
Mar
25
2020
Stay-At-Home and Safer At Home Orders Impose Restrictions on Residential Landlords and Rental Property Managers Davis|Kuelthau, s.c.
Jul
23
2014
The Wisconsin Supreme Court Puts Judgment Creditors at Risk by Changing 150 Years of Law on How to Obtain a Priority Lien against a Judgment Debtor’s Personal Property Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Jan
11
2016
CFPB Issues Letter on TRID Enforcement and Liability: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
6
2014
N.C. Court of Appeals Reviews Commercial and Residential Summary Ejectment Cases Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jul
5
2023
Reforming Cost-Benefit Calculations under Circular A-4: Implications for Environmental Rulemaking Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
16
2018
A New Opportunity for Deferring and Reducing Capital Gains While Making Attractive Investments in America’s Distressed Areas Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Oct
28
2021
The Road Ahead – Four (4) “Mile Markers” to Watch in the Year Ahead Stark & Stark
Mar
30
2020
COVID-19 Update: Coronavirus-Related REMIC Considerations Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jul
13
2023
Despite challenges, deals still happening on Chicago's Mag Mile Chuhak & Tecson, P.C.
Dec
13
2012
Creating a Tax Incremental District to Spur Development von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Feb
23
2016
UK Planning and Housing Bill 2015 – Starter Homes Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
11
2021
New UK Rules Governing Unpaid Commercial Rent Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Aug
22
2014
Wisconsin - Don’t Forget to Take the Real Estate Developer’s Rights as Collateral Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Jul
25
2023
EPA Finalizes Reporting and Recordkeeping Rule for Asbestos Beveridge & Diamond PC
Sep
10
2018
Part 17 of “The Restricting Covenant” Series: Realtors, Real Estate Agents, and Restrictive Covenants Faegre Drinker
 

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